50 Guitar Hacks: for the Thinking Man's Guitarist

Guitar Hacks are clever ways to do things on guitar. These hacks are based on 20 years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker, and more efficiently. whatever your current level. Here's exactly what you'll get an insight into in this eBook:



1. How to Remember Chords in the Beginning

2. How to Learn Scales in order to Improvise

3. How to Learn More Chords without Learning More Shapes

4. Modes: What to do first

5. How to Make Music from Scales

6. How to Learn any Technique to Perfection

7. How to Write Using the Modes

8. Don’t Be Scared Off by Long Chord Names

9. How to Make Your Solos Sound Better Overnight

10. Modes: The Thing That’s Stopping You from Understanding Them

11. How to Play Outside the Key and Sound Cool

12. How to Play like Your Idols without Learning their Licks

13. How to Get Better: The Four Levels of Awareness

14. How to Write Great Stuff

15. How to Get a Great Tone

16. How to Write a Great Guitar Riff

17. How to Practice Guitar without Getting Distracted

18. How to Choose a Guitar Book

19. How to Design an Effective Practice Routine

20. How to Break Out of Scale Patterns

21. The Easiest Guitar to Modify

22. Use a Pencil at the Nut to Help Stay in Tune

23. Make Your Own Guitar Picks

24. How Long Does It Take to Get Good?

25. How to Make Your Own Songbook

26. How to Start Improvising on Jazz Tunes

27. Make Sure You Know What You’re Learning

28. The Absolute Fastest Way to Improve Your Guitar Playing

29. Avoid the CAGED System

30. How to Improve any Picking Technique

31. Learn How to Build a Solo

32. How to Instantly Improve Your Blues Guitar Soloing

33. How to Invent Your Own Guitar Chords

34. How to Learn the Notes on the Neck without Dying of Boredom

35. How to Hack Scale Patterns for the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Modes

36. Blues Guitar: You’re Trying Way Too Hard

37. How to Hack a Guitar Solo and Make It Yours

38. How to Use YouTube to Actually Learn Something

39. Why How It Sounds is Always More Important than How It’s Done

40. Use Your Pinky Right from the Start

41. How to Bend a String Properly

42. Use Your Guitar’s Volume Control

43. The Heavy Gauge Strings Fatter Tone Myth

44. The One Thing You Should Fatten Up

45. Throw Away Your Metronome

46. Songwriting: Don’t Try to Reinvent the Wheel

47. The Quick and Dirty Way to Learn Arpeggios

48. The Best Kind of Warm-up Exercises

49. Work on One Thing

50. How to Learn Music Theory



I had a lot of fun putting this book together, I hope you get the same enjoyment, and insight, out of reading it!